I’m breaking one of my biggest rules.. - Reacting to Tech Hot Takes
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0:00 Intro
1:26 let's get ready to roasteeeeem
29:33 Outro - Věda a technologie
No idea why you havent made a series out of this on the side, it's a great way to fix misunderstandings and incorrect information regarding the tech we work with today
Don’t take everything he says as fact much of the arguments he made were flawed.
Linus did say he was thinking of creating a separate reaction channel couple months ago, wonder if that will ever happen
@@hivemind8817 such as?
They aren’t flawed, they just aren’t fleshed out enough really. A proper hot takes series would probably allow that with testing to back up any claims made.
@@hivemind8817 You can elaborate when making comments like that. If you don't, you just look like an idiot.
I love how we have a good mix of blatantly bad takes, actually really good albeit unpopular takes, and then tons of in between. It gives the video a good flow as opposed to only looking at the worst takes possible!
It's the old American Idol method, works great.
At least we got to see that motion blur opinion taken to task.
and then there's max
Those Apple takes he read made me despair for the future of humanity. Swallowing corporate bullshit like that Max fellow as though it was the waters of life.
@@TooBiggoBritchesyup, i personally hate motion blur… but i do play at 17 fps often so even with that i prefer w/o blur
'Except there's other f@~%&£g buildings!!' from behind the camera had me in stitches 🤣
that one Max is a nugget XD
I literally burst out laughing when he said the bit about how "MacOS is dog$#!7 for [professional engineers]"! Right you are sir. 👍👍
This is funny because a friend of mine runs an engineering company and she and her employees all used macbooks. She had to get a windows laptop just for one piece of software that Apple did not support 😅
@@ArtemisCreatesare they software engineers? It really depends on the professional. Software engineering can easily be done on Mac and Linux and many coders actually prefer Mac due to it being Linux like but with better support.
Also with a modern MacBook Pro you’re gonna get a decent laptop. Whereas often a software engineer like my dad gets stuck with the laptops the business teams use which are super underpowered.
@@tanvir.m85 No doubt. I work with Ansys, and it's unlikely that it'd even boot without an Nvidia GPU installed.
@@tanvir.m85 they are actually all P.Eng so yes professional engineers and they deal with schematics for assembly lines and such. definitely not software engineers.
@@ArtemisCreates Great if it works for them but most CAD softeware, much less more specialized things(like Ansys that someone mentioned) barely work(if they boot in at all) with Mac. It just isn't a viable option most of the time.
"I miss micro-USB" is a disgusting take
Anyone who says that (and means it) should be tarred and feathered!
I hate it, but I agree with the guy above. Mini>Micro any day.
Same, almost threw my phone out the window when I heard that hot-take out loud. That HAS to be a deliberate sh*+post.
@@ph33lix agreed
for repair techs it's great
For those outside the Linux community: "20XX is the year of the Linux desktop" is almost completely a meme at this point
Lol totally agree. Every single year, someone says "it's the year of the Linux desktop!"
yup, honestly i believe IF linux will take on then it will go unnoticed. I mean that the spike will be very quick and sudden.
2017 was my year, no regrets, but it's not for everyone. I'll be waiting to help anyone who decides to cross over
@@t0mmy44h I try daily driving for month now and linux is much angry-generative. I tend to be much more frustrated when doing something (and i would consider myself a tech savy guy because i spend a lot time and study IT)
@@t0mmy44h Yeah, I tried switching a couple years ago but quality of life wasn’t good enough for me yet. I’ll definitely try switching again when I switch CPU though.
Please do more of these Linus, I don't think you get enough credit when it comes to your knowledge and experience, especially if you look at the comments back on the Brian the Electrician hoarder video a lot of comments were genuinely impressed about your off the top knowledge on 15-25 year old CPUs and the way you were just rattling off information about them. I think videos like this are helpful to the community as long as they are ok with being called out and disagreed with in the polite and respectful way you do it. The only other place to really get to see you go into detail about your ideas and thoughts on community hot takes is maybe during the Wan show merch message responses but usually you guys have to somewhat rush through those because there are so many. I really think this should become a staple series on the channel, maybe like monthly or bi monthly, idk just a suggestion.
I really liked this video. If it's not a series I would love it to be. I found the hot takes both entertaining and Linus's reactions very informative.
14:55
I learned a lot from this and would also appreciate getting videos like this somewhat regularly? I'd say once a month but I imagine Linus wouldn't want to do that often, so maybe once every 3-6 months?
This was fantastic please do more lol. Cheap content to produce and I actually found it very insightful to see Linus' opinions on technology takes
If you like to hear Linus’s opinions, you should check out the Friday streams
Right? This was both hilarious, informative, and likely very cheap to make compared to most of their content, fucking brilliant.
Lol they talked about this exact sentiment on the wan show
PLEASE MAKE THIS A RECURRING SERIES!!! Once or twice a year would be good. I love Linus's eloquent rebuttals.
Month would be better ;)
I agree.
@@minecraftWithDanielD week*
To be fair, those weren't 100% Linus eloquent rebuttals; if the credits are to be believed, Jake deserves some credit too as a writer of the episode. Not to take Mr Drop tips credit away of course, but to give some of it to the writer.
Tho tbh, I think I'd kinda prefer it if there was less script and more pure "reaction" from Linus, more authentic I'd recon idk
If he has better takes sure, never had a micro B cable go out on me. Had plenty of lightning cables break tho
I think Sabrent made the perfect moves. They proved that their budget-ish massive capacity drives were solid so they were always a choice on top of whatever base brand a given maker offered. So when people have found issues with Samsung, it was such an easy, acceptable change. Bravo.
12:44 Motion blur is amazing in car/racing games, but in fps games its your worst enemy
That’s what I’m saying! I play exclusively driving sims and (sigh) Minecraft, and a huge part of judging speed in driving games is blur. It’s not a negotiable in driving games.
May be your worst enemy, but it is realistic. If I shake my head I can see motion blur around me
This definately needs to be a reoccurring series
Real
I definitaly agree
Real real
We need more!
I dafunotily agree as well
The switch to Discord originally also had a lot to do with Vent and Teamspeak. Discord essentially created a VOIP client that could replace Skype, Vent, and TeamSpeak for the people who were using more than one. For a lot of game communities, Skype was already not preferred but used for other things, so you were switching between clients a lot
Yep. Discord replaced Teamspeak and Mumble for me, not Skype.
Discord replaced 2 things we had to pay before for me. A TeamSpeak server and a Website with Forum. For my Guild it is used for Raiding and also for Social stuff like Picture sharing etc.
Skype was what I used before switching over to Discord. We really just liked the audio quality and the ability to easier form a group chat than on Skype. Also the fact that we didn't get our IPs leaked on Discord unlike Skype.
Man, I was hear thinking, there's one that you're missing then I realized you said Vent not Ventrilo, lol. My biggest problem with Discord is that they lowered the share screen bit rate after Nitro was introduced to try and force you to subscribe. I relate it to Linus's video on CZcams wanting to charge for certain bitrate content. They are taking away something that has always been included, to charge for that same product and higher.
@@AbigatorMreally sucks that Discord's api is less open and full-featured than teamspeak because that is one of the things we lost along the way. I played several games that integrated directly with teamspeak for positional audio or automatically placing people in different channels when you joined a side in a game. For ArmA communities or large scale events where you need to sort people without manually going through, you just can't beat that
Love this video. Great concept, it should be done consistently.
thoroughly enjoyed this, make it a series please!
This should totally be a long running series with various of the more tech-y people at LTT, with a irregular upload schedule to avoid too many fabricated takes for people to get into the vids.
Love Linus' "wtf" reactions to some of these 🤣
The console peastant quotes series is pretty good
Anthony
He's only stereotyping that Linuses can rant, see: Linux creator, Linus Torvalds 🤣
"Don't take my word for it, Apple thinks you're wrong..." That got me more than it should have.
In terms of the physical connector, honestly the lightning connector is far better, and they have a point about the usb c standard being kind of a mess, but that's usb for you, I don't think it was so much apple saying they're wrong as much as them seeing the writing on the wall and not wanting to rnd a new one that might be legally unusable anyway, trying to keep their lightning profits up while making it seem like they're changing over by stretching it out as long as they can, dropping the least profitable (in terms of the royalties) devices first. imo, usb c is a bit shit but it's the best we have for the purpose, and without a technological hurdle unexpectedly appearing, it's unlikely we'll see a better one, as linus says, it'll likely be wireless only at that point
@@audi4444player what makes usb c shit in your opinion?
@@eccomi21 well, to clarify, I did mean 'a bit' shit, it's not all bad, some good points are the bi-directional-ness, and the smooth outer surface. drawbacks, the less durable piece is the device side rather than cable side, the smooth outer design actually causes longevity issues with retention, it requiring 2x the pins to achieve the bi-directionality is not ideal, and this is why the connector is pretty big for it's low durability. I'd actually argue the size to durability ratio of the connector would actually be worse than micro-b (not suggesting it's weaker, but that the increase in size is much more than that of durability) this also leads into it direction, from experience I have had loads of micro-b cables break, but the device is always fine, I have so far experienced 3 usb c device side failures. finally, the simple feeling of use, Personally I'd say the headphone type jacks, of any size are the gold standard for this, when it's in it clicks very affirmatively and snappy even on lesser quality ones, I think lightning hits the mark while even high quality usb c is just meh, it's not horrendous like a vga type thing but it being overly standardised means that it's a one size fits most solution rather than a perfect solution for each application
26:50 Considering current events ... that one hit right in the feels. "If people feel like we didn't take care if them, yeah I would feel like we failed"
- Linus Sebastian 2023
I was about to comment this
I can see that your content quality is improving. Keep it going.
Between this the WAN show, and the Framework video- I’m digging the recent more relaxed vibe of things in your productions. Things were feeling rather sterile and overly serious for a bit, and I’ve laughed my ass off multiple times watching the recent vids. Keep up the good work folks.
Are they finally getting rid of that? I haven't watched him for awhile because it felt too scripted.
I wish this video was even longer, this was so fun to watch, please keep more of these coming in the future LTT!
I did actually think, "Wait, is it over?"
Agree
WAN show time
When the segway to sponsor appeared i was like ""Nooooo its already over? I want more D:"
This is one of the most engaging and entertaining Ltt videos for me in basically ever. More of this please
9 months ago i ended a 39 year career in tech i ran a computer repair store for my boss and we had a gold mine. i loved anything tech. i love watching this kind of video. the customers SUK at being right. good bye ict. i do miss my hardware discounts though. ;(
Press F to pay respect.
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man...gave me flashbacks on having to educate friends on why their $1000+ Macbook was so much faster than the $300 base windows machine they upgraded from
🤣
also...the lightbar/union section was gold!
or iphone 13 people comparing it to samsung s5 or s6 saying how much better it is lol
@@ademiravdic but comparing the iphone 13 to the s22 ultra, the iphone is still better no?, it has better battery life, it has a better cpu and it lauched at 100usd cheaper
@@searic3203 No. Unless you're already in the Apple ecosystem. Personally, I don't even understand in what world iPhones even make sense. Just a horrific jail if you don't absolutely fanboy over every stock app. Can you change than stock phone app already? SMS app? Camera app? Launcher you def can't. If they weren't forced to, they wouldn't even allow other browsers.
@@esaedvik you’ve had 3rd party options for all of those for years 💀
honestly, i'm learning the reasoning behind tech products even more in this single video than any other videos. love this kind of content.
what did you learned from linus ?
Pilots pl🥺
This was phenomenal. Hope he brings this back for another go sometime in the future
That AI art take bamboozles me to my core.
"Oh great, It's Max again!" XD
Man there were some insane hot takes on this one. RIP to Max for having been turned into a pure Apple zombie, never going to be able to make his own decisions in life again
Yeaaaaaah, it hurts reading his takes.
Max straight up a zombie. Blud thinks apple takes him as a representative 😭😭
braaaaaainzzzz
braaaaaaaaaaiiiinzzzzzz
Had to check to see if Max bought his blue checkmark and yep, he did.
Its because Max is a choding tabernak.
I'm hooked. Do more of these, Linus. Quick, informative takes on a wide swath of topics, with great humor, too.
Iirc this is their test run for the react channel they're planning
Don't you feel sad though after watching Hot Take videos on CZcams? I do. It's like when you see a homeless person laying on the sidewalk shivering. You know homelessness exists, but it just hits harder when you're confronted with it. Same with hot takes. I know the world is full of incredibly stupid people, but it makes me sad when it's put on display.
Except he's wrong. Lightning can do USB 3 speeds. USB-C can do USB 2.0 speeds on a lot of devices.
More of these please!! Very educational!
This should be an ongoing series. Very entertaining!
As a professional working in the built environment sector, specifically in architecture, i couldn't agree more that Mac is useless for the softwares that we use 😂
same... Autocad is the main reason I stay away from Macs and also Linux.. that doesn't mean I don't hate Autocad with a passion though...
People in my Uni who got a macbook to do Electrical Engineering stuff are also regretting their decision. Half the programs just don't exist.
When I was in college, my friend who used a macbook just decides to run using windows just to run the softwares we used in classes, because it was non existant or not supported in mac os😂
fair, but thats not the only engineering discipline there is. software plus macs are an amazing combo
@@itemushmush nothing a windows pc couldn't do either, at probably half the price
Hey Linus, I think it'd be awesome if you could start this as a regular series on your channel and further more dedicated to debunking tech misconceptions of users and providing accurate info. It'll be super helpful for viewers and strengthen your channel's credibility. Keep up the great work!
I can see the title "sh!t tweets say"
"Correcting Twidiots" - Need this series!
This would make a great series!
Now this is a w take
Linus is on fire =) awesome and so freaking knowledgeable!!
Thank you so much for this educational video, I learned so much.
That apple thing hits hard. My wife was guilt of it when we first met. She would gladly compare her $1500 macbook to $250 walmart laptops without a hint of irony.
Everyone I know does that it's absolutely mind boggling
It's how Apple has conditioned its rabid fans - to blatantly commit logical fallacies and do anything they can to make Apple look and sound good. It's also how cults work.
I do it too. But I do it in jest. Never serious about it.
Thing is it pretty well holds true for everything under say 1200 bucks. The macbook air at 999 with an m1 and 8 gigs of ram is going to beat all but a few competitors below that price point and even some above it. Yes its stupid to compare at 300 dollar laptop to a 700 to 1k laptop, but when you go buy a 1k dell laptop usually you break even or even come out a head even so in favor of the macbook air (it wasn't like this a few years ago the m1 changed that, but now it very much is). Apple isn't really charging out of spec for their machines, there have been times in the past when they have, yes, but right now the only space where they are getting killed is gaming, and thats largely due to their lack of API support. If they opened things up just a bit and let vulcan run on their systems and helped the devs behind it, it'd likely be a different story.
@@mizinoinovermyhead.7523 If you mostly do productivity tasks that favor the M1 then sure. If you game then there are lots of cheaper options that perform massively better. If you do a mix of media consumption, gaming and light productivity, the other options are still more attractive as the windows ecosystem simply offers you a much bigger library of everything.
Make this a regular series! Hot takes w/Linus! I see the potential for a juicy sponsorship deal too.
DBRND?
no its just waste of time watching twitter trolls posting shit
Yeah, I enjoyed this one.
@@m.fatihyldz8159 Well then you don't need to watch it
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Following your channel from the last two years, interesting content!
I might watched over 80% of your videos but it was the most satisfying one :D except the extreme cooling ones ofc…
I have a hot take I hear from now and then - Games should have some kind of "returning to game" mode which will show you a progress you made and key points in the story if you haven't play the game for a long time. My boss at work has kids and he said he can't just play any story-heavy based games because he has so little time to play them and he can't remember a thing if he is getting back to the game after longer period of time.
This is why I only play one game of this kind a year.
I really support this idea. Some people can (and probably will) argue to "just read the journal that almost every game nowadays has", but in reality no one wants so sit and read 30 pages of plain text just to catch up on the story. I think a little something can make a really big difference on those story-heavy titles.
Arkham games did this well and it was nicely done
@@alio2269 Until Dawn would also be a great example. Not everybody likes the game, sure. But there was a recap between each chapter.
Oh, and I think The Witcher 3 had a short recap, too when you got back. Like, not in huge detail, but a quick synopsis
THIS!! I haven't touch Yakuza 0 in ages and i completely forgot what's the main mission and what's the side mission. I ended up only play those mini 4WD mini games when i play it lol
Honestly the fact linus and everyone isn't afraid to talk about this stuff is great. Not having a PR team has been the best thing for it and I will be glad to be here to witness it for another 20+ years.
i mean have you seen any other company where the employees bully the CEO? one of the oldest video editors have completely seen the CEO naked, one of the employees have more leverage at his own house. Knowingly employees stealing stuff from work..
@@AshSabre I know another companye where the employees bully the CEO and is Cover corp the ones that made Hololive.
@@Ms666slayer Stay humble, Yagoo.
I just discovered this channel and am amazed at the content quality.
Definitely need more of this 😂
Can't believe I watched 29 minutes of this and still find myself wanting more😂
Yeah most of them are wrong, but the one about 9:17 headphone jack removal is right. Linus says "but you lose them" Well I had three pairs in 5 years... all of them got replaced because I wanted to upgrade.. I still have all of six true wireless earbuds, never lost any of them. The secret? Earbuds are always either in my ears or in their case... it's that simple. If you lose them that's your fault, take care of your stuff better.
Also in 2023 headphone jack has no business on a smartphone. Convinience is everything when it comes to small mobile devices like phones. I don't miss the days of dealing with stupid wires getting tangled and rounting them under the shirt. Get with the times, or just use the dongle to use your ghetto $3 walmart buds.
Even the price argument is correct, you can find china knock offs for $10, sure they are terrible, but so are $10 wired buds
Damn. Felt like 10 minutes
@@beardsntools
When they removed the jack from the iPhone bluetooth earphones were not the standard. Only few people had them in 2016.
And they were under 120/150$ they had terribile latency with bluetooth 4.0...
@@beardsntools find me a $20 wireless that is as high quality as Moondrop Chu or Salnote Zero
@@lorenzogazzola328 Some people already had them in 2012 and those who had them prefered them over dealing with dumb wires, even tho 2012 bt buds were awful. The problem is People tend to stick with old inferior technology for as long as it works, unless the push is made. It was time to move on and Apple did the correct choice, glad others followed that decision because it got bluetooth wide adoption, which means resources to innovate. Ever since that decision bluetooth has rapidly improven unlike in the 2004-2016 era.
And even if you wanna argue 2016 was too early.. well now it's 2023 and you still have some people stuck in the past who cry about the jack that isn't coming back xD The vocal minority will always complain and make it seem like there's alot of people who still want their floppy, cd and now headphone back, but in reality vast majority is happy without that old tech, or simply doesn't care whenever it's present or not and just use the latest and superior option. even Samsung has found this with their own analytics and so they removed the jack.
Walkable cities aren't shopping centers, actually in Europe you will find not so many shopping centers. A good first step to walkable cities starts with allowing garage businesses again, allow multi-purpose development (first floor is a store, second floor a house). One such a store in a suburb is already a massive boon to the suburb - if you can walk to a store and buy some groceries, that is a street away from your house, wouldn't you?
The issue is we don't have buildings where 2nd story buildings make sense in suburbs. Also it won't stop people from driving to it.
That's not the issue. In North America everything is just spread out too far. The entirety of Europe can fit in *half* of the US, and that's not including Canada and Mexico, just the USA. As such, the population density in European cities is just higher on average than in the US. Next, cities in Europe are *far older* than cities in the USA (obviously). Many of those cities were originally built surrounded by walls. This necessitated tight building constraints which made finding more space to build difficult. This is why many European cities can be walked from one end to the other in under an hour. In North America, there never was that issue with space. Cities could be build as spread out as people wanted. Multiple acre properties were the norm, not the exception.
To make "walkable cities" in the US, (you can forget about remodeling any existing city, they're just too big and spread out as it currently is and that won't change), then we'd have to follow similar practices as other countries. Smaller overall footprint. All the stuff like homes, businesses, etc come after that initial design is made.
@@PacMonster0 The Netherlands actually razed half their cities to make them the same kind of car-centric urban hell the US was doing in the 70s. They figured out what they did was absolutely stupid and did a massive 180 and turned it into public transit and bicycle wonderland, but it shows that with enough drive for it, it's actually possible to make it at least somewhat better if not tremendous work in a few decades and with the right determination and goal in mind.
US Cities also will eventually have to adapt as they essentially giant ponzi schemes that are desperately trying to grow in size to repay the maintenance of previously made suburban infrastructure - Not Just Bikes has a good "short" series explaining exactly the failures of US city planning, it's called Strong Towns, if you want to watch it. But yeah, on average european cities developed much more compact due to particular limitations between already owned lands and the parts within the walls of many cities.
@@Eliphaser He's right in that cities in general are a scam. But wrong as to why, which is typical of urbanists. Cities like to sell people on things like entertainment venues, a false culture. In a way you could look at a city as a really crappy amusement park, that you pay taxes and rent to for a crappy little apartment with crappy neighbors and government that pretends to care about you. In the end the arguments against living in the country and suburbs are similar to those that are against the city. Personally I hate cities, they are prisons in my mind.
@@Eliphaser I mean your example of a large scale infrastructure change was a disaster that took billions of dollars and decades to sort of fix. Just because change can theoretically happen doesn't mean it will or even should. Best solution is to just build somewhere else and use proper design principles from the start. As I said before, space isn't a problem for the USA. Even today we use a small fraction of available land. And that's even disregarding native American reservations, national park land, or land set aside strictly for farming.
I used an Eyefinity setup when they were current and despite dealing with support issues in most games when it worked it was a large improvement for me. Having an ultrawide that's close to the resolution of three 1080 or 1440 screens in my opinion is the next generation of that kind of technology. I'd have bought one if it wasn't so expensive and since I don't work at a software company anymore I took the 4k I bought myself and use it on my main pc at home. I definitely can't afford a GPU to push three of these nor be able to afford two more or a quality ultrawide.
In regards to 4:30 , it's often because (at least previously), many tech reviewers cared SO much about the thickness of the phone, that it became almost the only thing a phone was measured on, to the point that a phone could have double the battery capacity compared to a similar spec phone, and get a lower score since it was a few mm thicker.
The majority of people are happy to trade a few mm for a much longer battery life, especially when it stops being new and the charge doesn't last as long
I think it happened because tech reviewers thought this is something that matters for consumers. So it wasn't their bias, but bias they created out of misunderstanding. But yeah, point still stands... buuut tech reviewers often have one phone they own and use for long time. If they do, then they will be familiar with some things that get important in smartphone after a while
Where have you been man? Smartphones has been getting thicker and has bigger battery in the last few years. We are not in 2016 anymore.
@@smug_slime That's why I wrote my post in past tense when talking about it
@@cummerou1 your comment was implied that it is still appiles today, at least you can edit comments now right?
And a headphone jack while we're at it
That headphone jack take really got me.
1. That's a huge ass assumption that Bluetooth headphones were commonly owned enough to warrant removing headphone jacks. I remember the only reason I ever got Bluetooth headphones was *because* they got rid of the jacks in cell phones.
2. Yeah, sure. Cables can be annoying if they get tangled. Keyword being "if". But you know what's more annoying? Having one of your wireless earbuds fall out of your ear for one reason or another and either losing it or having to replace it because it broke. I can't tell you how many times my coworkers have lost at least one wireless earbud. One coworker lost it for weeks only to find it smashed to pieces out behind our store.
3. Where do you live that wired headphones are the same price as wireless? I can go into a gas station and get a set of wired earcandy headphones for like 8 USD. For a decent pair of wireless earbuds, I'm easily paying double or triple that to start. I'll gladly drop 8 bucks on some ear candies over 80+ for Raycon.
Look, I agree the original posters comments were stupid.
That said, removing the headphones jack saves space on hardware where every mm counts. Furthermore, I believe it's much easier to waterproof the usbc port than the headphone jack. Waterproofing as a reliability feature is a must in this day and age I reckon.
Samsung provide a relatively inexpensive usbc to headphone jack dongle too, as they understand not all people want to use wireless.
I have ear beds, but also one of those "ear bud like ones connected by a cable" and that hangs around my neck, even if it falls out ofnmy ear.
I hear you though, it's more $$$ to spend.
I agree with all but I have to say cheapo gas station wireless earbuds aren't the same but quite similar in price to gas station ear buds at least where I live (which is central alberta canada
Besides,the battery in the headphones (or earbuds) will eventually die, most of the time with no option to replace the batteries. This is of course TERRIBLE for the envoirement, and not to mention, also for your wallet.
Okay, but no one's dumb enough to buy Raycons. They're overpriced anyway. You can get decent wireless earbuds for around AU$40, not US$80
I initially read that take as "It would make sense IF these three things happened" but it looks like they only put the "if" on the 1st one. Not sure if they meant that all three should be included with that but yeah, doesn't read that way.
IF all those things happened? Yeah nah - screw charging/batteries/lossing tiny dongle things. Gimme my interference-less (well, when paying for proper shielded ones) wired headphones plz.
I bought a screen light bar a few weeks back. Im with andy on this one, 100%. when you set it up right the screen is not affected and i love having light on my whole desk. you should really try it
I legitimately want more of this, it’s like everyone gets smarter the more this short and gorgeous man talks.
And. Short *and.* The two are not mutually exclusive. ;-)
9:25
1. You can’t forget to charge wired headphones
2. Wired batteries will never go bad
1. Yes.
2. No. I've never had wired Earphones last longer than a year at most just because they don't have batteries to fail doesn't mean they last any longer than wired headphones
@@dougalbadger4918 my last pair of earbuds (wired) lasted nearly 2 years before breaking. they broke because i forgot i was wearing them under my jacket and the right one got flattened in a mosh pit (left a nasty bruise on my chest too), so its not exactly fair (and the left one still worked perfectly)
@@dougalbadger4918take better care of your earbuds and/or buy quality ones. I suggest the KZ ZSN Pro which are cheap and high quality earbuds. Don’t just buy whatever you see at a gas station or Walmart.
My eyes inmediatly had to adjust atop of a headache when you blurred the screen! XD
Also it's funny how many people defend lightning on iPhone xD. It would be such a better experience if I don't need different cables for my mac, iPad, and iPhone anymore! :D
I thought i was crazy, as i was shaking my head in a "wake up" motion while throwing my hands in a "what the hell" pose, while watching the continuing stream in the PIP window while opening a google search box, typing out "did an app called bump exis..." when heard you call it out, I'll be honest it took a bit for me to come around to your channel, but today was the realization of the research +knowledge 👏 sir 👏
I'd like to see this become a regular thing. It was entertaining to watch, and in some cases informative.
There will be too much butthurt
didn't know it was that entertaining, need to get my popcorns ready next time
@@Bill_Ackman I hear lidocaine works wonders
@@gemyellow I found Linus' exasperation entertaining, as well as some of the claims some people put forth.
For the EV's and walkable cities hot take, you're right that complete change back to walkable cities may never happen in North America, but the reason you don't have even a coffee shop within walking distance of your house likely has more to do with zoning restrictions prohibiting businesses from existing there rather than a lack of demand. Reconsidering the norm of single-family zoning and encouraging mixed use would be a huge step in the right direction. And then you might get to enjoy a coffee shop a 15 minute walk from your house :)
And less people would drive there, which they might liko walking. Then they would ask for better sidewalks or paths, then a shoe store might pop up. Then bikes with a rack might be a good idea once a local grocer comes along, then a small bike shop that does in-house repairs. Then someone works frome home, sells their car, takes the train on a vacation every few months and says "this is the best thing that ever happened! It has saved me money, I'm less stressed on the road with my bike, I'm in the best shape in 15 years, and I have tons of time not stuck in traffic!" Then all their friends try it. In 25 years you have a walkable neighborhood that has extreme housing costs because it's so "favorable" that 5 other cities try it. A majority of the people I talk to think that more infrastructure for less cars is a good thing, it just needs a spark at this point.
@@byronday8696 exactly
The best time to plan efficient cities was 100 years ago, the second best time is right now.
After the pandemic and the riots of 2020, I think we know it is safer to live in rural areas. Living in cities isn't safe. EV's are also much harder on the environment and largely powered by coal plants.
Do you know when in the video this was discussed? Could you provide a time stamp?
28:21 The way Linus slid this dig at the Apple mouse, "with the charging port located at the bottom" took me out 😂😂🤣
@16:20 Geforce Experience does allow some smalls ammounts of overclocking. it is availble in the performance options of the on screen overlay.
Having had a shoulder injury, a split keyboard is invaluable because minimizing the travel of the right hand from the keyboard to the mouse is a huge deal. I still have major shoulder issues in large part because of the huge amount of built up strain moving my right hand back and forth. It's not about the angle of the wrists, it's about supporting the arms and shoulders, and an ergodox style split keyboard gives me both.
bro just get a better shoulder
Have you tried using a trackball?
Samsung, and I'd imagine most Android phones with larger screens, has a split screen option for the keyboard in landscape mode.
I'm 6'2 though so my hands are big enough to reach every point of the screen so I absolutely hate cramping my hands to use it.
Ergonomic keyboards does have their use, especially among people who have some sort of injury. My main gripe with them is that not one is alike another, so every time you switch you have to spend time getting used to something new. Meanwhile, all regular keyboards are pretty similar, especially mechanical ones.
For the most part, people without injuries just doesn't need ergonomic keyboards, as there are numerous other things you can do to avoid long term injury, like stretching once in a while, changing your position, having a proper desk and chair, not sit with the arm resting halfway on the desk (Which is how I got carpal tunnel back in the day. Thanks corner-desk), etc. And there aren't a lot of mechanical ergonomic keyboards out there to begin with, which are just superior in every way, and the ones that do exist are expeeeensive and/or not suited for gaming
@@Excludos As the happy owner of a pair of ergodox ezs for work and home, I absolutely agree 100% about nonstandard ergonomic keyboard layouts and expense. I like them a lot, but I'm not going to lie and say they aren't expensive or that the ortholinear keyboard doesn't have a learning curve, but it was worth it for me, and I do think that overall it strains the body less, so I'd support that becoming the standard.
I'm not sure which company it was... but I read an interview with an executive (the company was working on acoustic shock absorbers at the time I think). The comment about reviewers seeing more products reminded me of something from the interview. The exec would hold job interviews at a moderately remote location where people would drive out to. He'd casually ask them about their trip, and the car they drove. He was mostly interviewing experienced engineers, so they usually were driving fairly nice cars- Mercedes, Lexus, BMW, etc. It was a trick question. Sometimes they'd brag about how great their car was. That wasn't what he was looking for. He wanted the guy driving a Lexus that wasn't happy with a couple small things about it, like where the cupholder was or the radio controls. He wanted engineers who were obsessive about fixing every little thing.
As for fixing our cities in North America... it can be done in phases. The next time a developer in your town wants a variance to build a corner store in a suburb, or an apartment complex, don't jump on the NIMBY train. Vote to fund more mass transit, even if you don't use it... if you build it they will come can apply to mass transit too. Fight for bike lanes. Try to get the setbacks required for properties reduced a bit. Try to get even one extra floor allowed in zoning. Allow duplexes. Vote against new lanes for highways.
It's kind of like planting a tree... you may not get all of the benefit of it yourself, but your kids will.
(i'm from eu, but) If they could get zoning laws changed in NA I think a lot of people in different professions could do a lot of good. But currently it seems really hard to get beneficial work done city planning wise in NA. But some places are improving and I hope the best for you all!
What is your view of "fixed"? Amsterdam? Do you understand why that won't work in Canada/U.S.? Do you even know about forced desegregation busing forcing families to the suburbs in the first place? No, we won't let you chip away at suburbia.
20:09 I am using hp Dreamscreen 400 in my office right at this moment. It is from the 2010, I believe. The only things I upgraded were the RAM and SSD. I know it isn't as fast as my other machines but it runs window 10 without any problems, does everything it is supposed to do, look great and is well built. I have been using it for 13 years, and planning to continue till end of life for windows 10.
As a user of a magic mouse with the charging port at the bottom, when i see the low battery warning, i just continue until I have to do something else and then plug it in. Even a quick trip to the toilet is enough to use it for 30 minutes and at the time of the warning, it still has around 5 hours of charge left.
After using discord for years now I must say I agree.
I hated the user interface at the beginning but the incompetence and inconvenience of competing alternatives was almost unbelievable. Also FREE helped a ton of course.
Most gamers now a days don't even know what TeamSpeak is and it's for a reason
TeamSpeak and Ventrillo , let's gooo haha
Yeah, bit sad so many other companies lagged behind in innovation and functionality (cough.. New Teamspeak 5 interface, they even skipped 4..). But there was a few trade offs moving to Discord like lack of local hosting, giving up data and bit higher resource usage.
Funnily enough I'm still currently hosting an Aussie TeamSpeak Server as a number of our US friends are lets just say unwilling to move to using Discord on a daily basis. Personally I couldn't help but to be slowly pulled into Discord for daily use, Simply due to the usefulness of streaming game/screen to others! but then things like bots, better message system etc helped too.
Me and my group have been using teamspeak since 2014 and we've no reason to change. The audio quality that isn't 'locked' behind a paywall is a no brainer. We only use Discord to screenshare and nothing more.
and now discord continues getting worse with busywork for the sake of busywork or just blatantly taking themes & QoL plugins from BD lol
@@latelegs Same, I just host a Teamspeak server myself on a Raspberry Pi. We dont need all the crap Discords offers, we just need a way to speak to each other in high quality and low latency.
This is fantastic, would love more of this. It gives you a chance to respond and cover micro topics that you wouldn't be able to cover with larger videos. Would love to see one with Dennis (with camera hot takes) and other members with specialties roasting bad takes.
I do like my steam controller, using gyro on right pad touch, with right pad using trackball momentum for quick flicks.
As for infotainment; I mounted a 15.6 inch touch display with a usb-c port to dock my phone for big maps and music, while charging my phone.
For physical keyboards of phones; Hear me out, 5 row keyboards in standard layout - IE HTC Dream/Google G1. I loved those clicki bois... I hate 4 row layouts, although i did use flit keyboard on a motoactv as a smartwatch to text, which is basically a 2 row keyboard. It worked for the tiny screen.
As someone who used a smartphone with a physical keyboard (t9 of all things)I can honestly say they are better. Special characters come down to how well the keyboard is set up, and Samsung did a bang up job with this one. I've had this phone since 2017 and type super fast most of the time. Love my physical keyboards.
I would 1 million percent take my old blackberry bold keyboard over ANY touch screen keyboard, any day. I hate tough screens for typing.
Touch screen keyboards would be better if these fucking mega corpos put some effort in and developed in-house implementations of multi-touch swipe keyboards. I suggest looking up and (if you can) trying out Nintype. It's sadly developed by one guy who has (as of right now) moved onto other projects AFAIK, so it's not being maintained anymore, but man, using Nintype is an absolute revolution, and I am genuinely BAFFLED nobody has picked up the idea.
25:17 is actually pretty hilarious since one of the major criticisms of the 296GTB is that the dash loses a lot of it's functionality specifically because they have tried to bundle in the dash and infotainment. You lose half the dash functionality when trying to use maps or android auto/carplay. I don't think touch screens everywhere is a good idea, but having a dash for dash things and a screen for maps/music etc is a system that doesn't need to be changed for the sake of change.
That's the exact reason I haven't bought a 296GTB yet. The only reason, honestly, nothing to do with money, nope, just the infotainment
I don't understand that take either. "Know what's better than being able to see more at once? Seeing less!". One example I could agree with is the screen in a Tesla model 3: there's nothing like the immediacy of a knob or button to control media, maps, AC, etc., and having a large HUD with some physical controls to at least supplement the center screen would have swayed me
I think it should be completely opposite. A digital dash always looks rubbish compared to analogue dials. I'm yet to see a car with a high enough resolution or that doesn't use some crappy style. Infotainment screens are fine, but a screen for speed and rpm is just stupid
@@jako1234567890jako The aftermarket makes some pretty good ones for race cars and such, but yeah, the ones the big car manufacturers use are fricken ancient tech.
Also, having a separate screen means I can delegate GPS and playlist duties to the copilot while I focus on breaking the car.
I don't care for motion blur in most games and it's usually the first thing I disable, however in racing games especially in the ones where you a supposed to go really fast (Grip, Red out) it greatly increases the feeling of speed. No its not going to make me a better driver, but it helps with the immersion of going so fast you cant see what's around you which makes those kind of games feel more fun.
The newer Forza games have a function similar to this visually, but it's done without motion blur, instead using some other processes to slightly tighten your field of view at high speeds, motion blur being on makes it look like a smeary mess instead, I think they somewhat conflict.
Yea that’s the only time I like motion blur. Making it look like your zooming is nice but everything else is gross
Ew
Ok, but you get the exact same effect with camera shake if the dev is smart enough to implement that. Forza horizon 1 is a perfect example, you have a really good sense of speed contrary to modern Forza games.
EXACTLY
i like motion blur in specifically racing games, makes everything feel faster
Has everyone forgotten about the big issues with random people joining skype calls that you or nobody else had any connection to? They were straight up able to take control of the call and mute or disconnect others and such, and not only that they were able to steal personal information stored unecrypted off of your device. That kinda scarred the gaming community (especially those of us young at the time) and we were eager to have discord with better security, ease of use, and stability.
This was a very entertaining video. Please do more of these. Maybe like a monthly series?
12:07 - i remember posting something prelaunch anticipating the massive impact the Steam Deck was going to have and had a friend smugly reply "oh yeah, like the (not Valve produced) Steam Machines? Like the controller?" and I just flatly said something along the lines of "I just shared the coldest take, you wait and see"
He saw
This was great, I need more
Here is a hot take: Not all gamers play competative shooters or e-sports titles. I play exclusively singleplayer games, especially RPGs and most review sites miss important differences in what metrics people care about. I usually care more about comfort and fidelity than I do frames and response times, and I doubt I am alone.
Yes, we are a silent part of the market. Maybe there is an opportunity for content creators.
Action/shooter games take most of the market share and new games are released all the time making them the 1st to take advantage of new tech making them the best candidates for benchmarking and comparisons
Doesn't more frames and less response times feel more comfortable though, the smoothness of the game definitely adds to it
Uh, I want frames and response in everything. Some genres are more forgiving, but that doesn't mean I want it to be better.
100% though on review sites and multiplayer games. Some have expressed that singleplayer games are dying in popular favor of multiplayer games. Not sure how true that is, considering we just don't get much innovation in anything anymore and it's been a while since a big title has come out (elder scrolls, gta, fallout, starcraft, unreal, half life) and most AAA titles that do come out end up being weirdly focused on the wrong things (final fantasy).
I think in a perfect world, complete with top tier games in every genre, people would be a lot more diverse with their games they play, and that opportunity windows dictate more "preference" than actual preference.
Not played competitive in over a decade. Tho I used to play and organize leagues and tournaments.
I still want my single player experience to be smooth, accurate and responsive.
As a person who went to school for art. Ray tracing is a godsend. I spent forever learning how light works only to have most games look like total eye sores. Ray tracing is the first time I felt that gaming graphics actually blew me away. If I can help it, I'm not going back. People go on about reflections and shadows but I find that it's the superior ambient occlusion that really does it for me.
The first time I ever saw HBAO in a video game I was so happy. Ambient Occlusion had looked... okay, up until that point, in my opinion. HBAO+ was something I noticed a huge difference in immediately. Ray Tracing is nice and if I could run games at 144fps with it on, I'd never turn it off. But it's way too much of a performance hit, and I often wonder if we'll ever optimize it to the point that it can run as efficiently as other settings that we now just take for granted and put on Ultra. (Like Anisotropic Filtering.)
Yeah people view raytracing as just fancy reflections or extra shadows but the Global illumination with the proper light bounces, AO and actual light sources is the real game changer. Less games have implemented RTGI since its a much bigger change to the dev process than adding on rt reflections and such but I hope the use will be far more common soon.
Like once you learn about good (or atleast pleasant to your ear) audio, you can't help but notice how bad cheap speakers are.
If you are able to spot the difference in quality of lighting, then you know that ray tracing is amazing.
If we just kept pumping framerates up and forgot about quality innovations we'd be playing at 700fps on displays that can't do anything near that, looking at games like WoW or CS source. Though, I do wish that the fact of life didn't push for fidelity at the limit. Like 15fps on decent gpus each time we get something new. Gpu developers can only do so much to make a new tech viable in the early stages but I wish each release of tech was 60fps minimum within the first year.
Case in point, Minecraft ray tracing looks incredible, and the game is blocks.
Ambient occlusion is a massive thing for visuals that most people glance over. Out of all RT techniques I think it's the one that improves the scene the most (relative to cost), SS-based AO is just bad, it fails constantly near the edges of the screen and it's impossible to ignore once you see it
An Addition to the Infotainment discussion. I drive a Mercedes C-Class W206 which has a huge touch screen in the center but I figured out that while driving I miss the touchpad of the the predecessor a lot because in my experience it is much easier to interact with while driving
Linus is a tech god at this point. He's seen the industry closely for like 3 decades and has pivoted himself to be in the right direction / mindset as a consumer, tech youtuber and proper solutions builder. Ty Linus. 😊
And still doesn't understand how modern motion blur works. His sample and hold understanding comes from ps2 days. It was awful back then.
Unionizing over a screen light bar is the best reason in the world to fight for your employee rights. #GoAndy
Please do more audience participation stuff like this! It was fun!
Wow, this video quality is awesome, how did you record this?
15:17 “20XX WILL BE THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!”
This his literally been said of every year from 2000 to present.
Your example (Steam Deck) is, as you said earlier in the video, a videogame console. Of those 1.5 million units I bet less than 100,000 are being used as general purpose computers and even fewer than that are being used by someone who doesn’t have a Mac or PC as their primary device.
I agree lol linux isnt ready for most people to get used to yet
Andy's "union strike" to Linus with the other boys was to much to handle! I literally blew food out my nose, my head still hurts!!! 😂😂😂 UNION! UNION! UNION!
And you know, even as someone who is violently pro-Union, I totally get where Linus is coming from; if he can't manage a small-ish organization and keep everyone taken care of, that it's a failure of his. 100% get that viewpoint, even if I don't entirely agree with it. Do I think 100 people is the point where a Union starts being required? No.... but it's also not far off; if his org were to double in size (which it is sure to at some point with current trends), then I'd say it becomes a necessity. Honestly, it's not even a matter of "making sure everyone is adequately taken care of" at that point, but just a simple matter of organization. I don't care how good your HR department is, at a certain scale, you're going to need an outside body to organize and handle employee disputes no matter how minor. That's just the healthiest way for EVERYONE to handle things.
@@tomshotdogs6645 AMEN TO THAT
This needs to be a series. Weekly.
Hard agRee
Yes. Just like JxmyHighroller with basketball/sports.
y e s
That already exists - WAN Show!
myabe not weekkly, but quarterly maybe
When stuff moves really fast in real life, or your shift your view, it looks blurry. That's my only argument for motion blur; it makes stuff look more naturally in motion in *some* games. It's also easier on your eyes IMO, but I also have poor vision and use shitty giant TVs instead of monitors, so that could be a factor as well.
Linus argues against the $300 smartphone hot take with another garbage hot take: that folding phones are actually good.
You're not wrong. But man I think it's so cool that my phone filds.
The transition to walkable cities starts in the downtown core, not in the surrounding residential areas. Langley in particular has a long ways to go, but it starts with replacing the surface parking and big box stores around 200th with multi-family residential and local small businesses.
THANK GOD someone said it! I wasn't expecting Linus to roast the guy and not urban planning politics! I strongly suggest channels NOT JUST BIKED and STRONG TOWNS.
Also, the change comes from zone reform, and things like allowing small stores (like coffee stores) in residential areas. Also, narrower streets, with protected bike lanes and sidewalks so CARS CAN'T SPEED THROUGH RESIDENTIAL STREETS AND THEN BLAME KIDS FOR "SUDDENLY RUNNING IN FRONT OF CAR".
EDIT: Also not like the US is any stranger to bulldozing neighborhoods for infrastructure...
@@arahman56 its more a scocietal reform tbh. NOT JUST BIKES made a good video recently abbout the overly heavy SUV usage and how nonsensical it is. roads are costly and thus are usually build out of necessity. and since basically everyone in the US now drives a big ass car that needs 2 lanes, obviously roads need to be build wider...and people would most definitely get angry about narrower roads and only complain if you start there instead of the other way around. get the population to drive smaller, more practicable cars again and you dont need to build big ass roads any more.
@@mr.hanfblatt9152 We could start by requiring a new class of license for these oversized death machines...
@@arahman56 The US highway safety institute has been pushing for more regulation on trucks/SUVs for a while. Not really new class of licenses, but more safety features on vehicles over a certain size because they can't stop killing people in what would otherwise be mild fender benders. People in trucks regularly slam into people because they have huge blind spots in front of their ego machines.
5 min in and its easily one of the best vids on this channel ever. Linus and co are quite wise compared to most given their collective experience, to see silly folks get learnt is funny as heck
Ish. The problem comes when the color commentary is added in. Linus especially frequently talks about subjects he knows very, very little about - makes statements that show a clear lack of understanding of the subject. Although I will say that in general I find this happens most when he is talking about things in America.
@@NightRogue77 To be fair, America is a very confusing shitshow, and I live here.
you can get a fairly cheap enclosure, especially if your doing the m.2 adapter method. those are like $50 plus some kinda psu thats probably $50-$70
I cant remember when discord updated its UI but what linus said is hands down more true now than ever
For the Nvidia one, press ALT + Z and open the performance menu. You can actually change power and thermal limits. You can even have a sort of auto overclock feature that strictly follows your preference. Very useful
Not mentioning Ansel
@@GIBbeerDST remind me again what does ansel do? All I remember is the pascal launch with super resolution screenshots on supported games
Came for this.
@@smol_yote Isn't Ansel the stop-time free-roam camera system or something? It's for screenshots, yes, but doesn't it take advantage of the in-game environment? Like controlling lighting, camera effects, etc.
I can't be bothered to watch the whole video. What is this comment referring to? :D
Slightly cooling off the motion blur take
In racing games it *dramatically* increases the sense of speed which makes it a far better experience, rarely do racing games actually make you feel like you're going the speed that you are actually going and motion blur helps a lot with that
the ONLY exception
Agreed. It also can help make driving games look better with lower detail settings, and provide a seemingly smoother experience on lower framerates. For most other games, however, it does suck.
Exactly
all games should come with sliders for blur amount. I had to drop way too many games cause the blur was too high and just disabling it was not the way to go due to fps being too low..
Motion blur kind of makes a game more cinematic. In cyberpunk I enjoy the world more with motion blur and 90fps instead of of seeing everything sharp and crisp the whole time. Of course only when exploring the world not in a fight.
"I prefer the luke-warm take"
Goddammit i almost spit my drinks out
Motion blur is nice when you use it very lightly on key elements. For exemple, Wreckfest, a racing game, mostly uses it just a tad on the racing track. It gives a nice impression of speed and smoothness without impacting clarity.
Although videos like these tends to be 2x or more longer than the regular videos u upload daily, I found myself really enjoying watching this type of content, it's just u talking infront of the camera.
It's fun. It's great. Please do more
This definately needs to be a reoccurring series!
Agreed!
Yeah definitely, I think I agreed with everything Linus said.
“Someone put a screen bar on Linus’ desk! Union! Union! Union!” Had me rolling on the floor lmao
YO THAT DELL FLAT PANEL FROM 2005 HITS ME PERSONALLY!!!!
I used to use my dell monitor from a 2007 inspiron 530s, Im still using the keyboard, but the mouse died a couple days ago :(
I'm so glad for your RT take. I've worked with Blender for nearly a decade now, and It's amazing how much time and effort of making game assets is faking and baking RT effects into textures, maps and models. If my time and energy could be focused on the lighting, materials, and style of my art without having to spend so much time figuring out how to make them look right in a non-rt engine, my life would be so much easier.
Completely agree with you, but I really just wanna say I find your username hilarious, don't mind me.
@@Naokarma SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE
ITS PEOPLE
Even if raytracing in games is gimmicky and never becomes all that useful, raytracing for digital artists will keep dedicated raytracing hardware a marketable advantage for a long long time.
@@reaganharder1480yeah, also if the tech evolves, why the fuck not use it if it gets really good and affordablw (my guess is in the 7 year mark maybe,)
You're right, but the issue with that take I think is that OP framed it clumsily. If you have budget constraints, performance generally trumps graphics. I think that's what he was trying to say. I don't think he meant to say raytracing is not worth it in general.
My 4790k build from 2014 lasted me until 2022. It still works fine, it was just showing its age. Upgraded the GPU in 2019, still have that GPU. Last year or two of use I added NVMe. 8 years is a good run. My first (custom) build from 2009 is still functional as well, also I had migrated the PSU from that unit to the 4790k build. I don't know anyone with a Mac that has gotten such a long life out of their hardware.
I'm still using a 4790k, although i do plan on building a new pc later this year.
The mac would just show its age age too.. I still have my Apple II works flawless , also have my old commodore 64 and TSR80 from radio shack. All work fine many decades after production but are outdated by today's standards.. Daughter still uses her 2009 Macbook pro in 2023 because it does everything she needs to do with it still. Plenty of 2007-2012 Macs in perfect working service sold second hand. You find maybe a faction of that available in PC market space outside of older business used systems that people still end up having to put money in to get where they want it.
I ran a 2500k from 2011 to 2019. Upgraded the GPU once or twice in that time, and threw in an SSD at some point
I got eight years out of my 2012 Macbook Pro. That said, the ONLY REASON why I did was because I was able to buy it used (hell no, I ain't buying a mac at Apple Store prices!) and I was able to upgrade the RAM from 4gb to 16gb. Four gigabytes of RAM didn't even cut it back in 2014. I don't know why Apple even _offered_ that spec... but hey, at least I could make it serviceable with a tiny upgrade. Eventually I replaced the HD with an SSD and got even more life out of that laptop.
The fact that I wouldn't be able to do that today is one of the big reasons why I don't touch Apple products anymore. Everything's soldered. Everything's proprietary out the ass. Need a bigger drive? TOO BAD. If you didn't get enough storage when you bought it, you are SOL. Get used to having an external drive hanging off the friggen thunderbolt dongle for the next decade.
Funny thing is, I wouldn't even get much utility out of a macbook nowadays. It's honestly surprising how much PCs and PC laptops have caught up in the media production space. When I was in school, a Mac was _essential_ if you were a musician. You had to rely on them for the build quality and low latency processing. But that definitely isn't the case anymore. Nowadays I'm running a bottom-of-the-barrel $400 refurbished HP laptop that I just picked up last fall and it has everything I would ever need. You really don't need that much horsepower to record and edit audio. Interfaces are all plug-n-play. The latency issues of old are pretty much _gone._ Yet I still hear people spouting that outdated conventional wisdom "if you're a musician, you _need_ to get a mac..." Bitch, I'm uploading 4k video streams through the modern-day equivalent of a Geo Metro and it runs just fine. Even my _cell phone_ can pair with this audio interface and lay down tracks. I don't want anyone telling me that I _need_ to pay top dollar for a mac in this day and age.
@@ConfinedSpiral-xy8qzif you use a less bloated OS then it even can get faster ;)
(Talking about minimalist Linux distros :3)
Very well-researched and fine-made video this is.